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pith:TDUQ6BGS

pith:2011:TDUQ6BGSGWOYQUU2QLGBR7AZPE
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Quantifying the influence of scientists and their publications: Distinguish prestige from popularity

Linyuan L\"u, Menghui Li, Yan-Bo Zhou

arxiv:1109.1186 v2 · 2011-09-06 · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TDUQ6BGSGWOYQUU2QLGBR7AZPE}

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4 Citations open
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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.
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First computed 2026-05-18T03:58:51.261376Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98e90f04d2359d88529a82cc18fc1979261e88f21ec3bcd0cb39005d3a172d81

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.1186 · arxiv_version: 1109.1186v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.1186 · pith_short_12: TDUQ6BGSGWOY · pith_short_16: TDUQ6BGSGWOYQUU2 · pith_short_8: TDUQ6BGS
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TDUQ6BGSGWOYQUU2QLGBR7AZPE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 98e90f04d2359d88529a82cc18fc1979261e88f21ec3bcd0cb39005d3a172d81
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd52071fda2f13c870c785dd7448bbf8d3ebbbcea06488b3d1e4c0acdb54d2d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-06T13:47:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce43f82d1384ab01ecc7e41659df63e4d081724a268160127e11e0bd994091b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.1186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}